# why goes the threads here only 2 year back in time? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 29, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645 "2006-05-29T18:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Minotaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Minotaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minotaurus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645/1 "2006-05-29T18:53:33Z")
I remember that I first visited the straight dope back in april-may 2000 are old threads toasted? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645/2 "2006-05-29T19:02:29Z")
Are you sure you’re using the search parameters correctly? A quick test search of my own brings up [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=397) from April 1999. That’s possibly the earliest year one could find owing to the change of board format and host. ---
**Author:** ![Minotaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Minotaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minotaurus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645/3 "2006-05-29T19:45:31Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Are you sure you’re using the search parameters correctly? > > A quick test search of my own brings up [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=397) from April 1999. That’s possibly the earliest year one could find owing to the change of board format and host. I did one thing wrong when i changed the parameters “find post from a year ago” and left the right parameter on “and newer ones”. I changes this to “older ones”, but I still can’t find any older post than 2004 ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645/4 "2006-05-29T20:52:01Z")
User CP -\> Edit Options -\> Default Thread Age Cutoff -\> Show All Threads ---
**Author:** ![Minotaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Minotaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minotaurus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645/5 "2006-05-29T22:18:14Z")
> [@Eleusis](#): > > User CP -\> Edit Options -\> Default Thread Age Cutoff -\> Show All Threads done what you said, but I still cant search for posts that predates 2004 I’ve tried searching both Great debates and The Pit this is as far back i got: Showing results 726 to 750 of 750 Page 30 of 30 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645/6 "2006-05-29T22:45:33Z")
No search for threads will return more than 750 of them. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-goes-the-threads-here-only-2-year-back-in-time/358645/7 "2006-05-30T00:23:31Z")
All the threads that had no posts since August 2000 were offloaded (you’ll note that aldiboronti’s example was bumped in 2001). Apparently, the administration has no idea if they are ever getting back online or in what form if they do. > **[Search does not return some results](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=369330)** > > I tried searching all sorts of ways for the earliest posts I remember making, way back in 1999. I can’t find anything I posted earlier than 2000. I know there’s a limit to how many results a search can return, so I tried limiting the search to only... > **[Offloading of the SDMB Archives](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=370188)** > > I guess since TubaDiva had already answered Johanna’s question she didn’t keep checking on the thread after that, but her answer actually raised further questions. I’ll re-ask them here: So how far in the future until they are back up? How...